Tommy James Quotes
If I don't get at least 1 email in any given hour, I begin to think my friends are conspiring against me.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
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In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.
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I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting for anything I've done.
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I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.
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Whenever you manage more than 100 attorneys, there's always going to be attorneys who believe that someone isn't as good as they are.
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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
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The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend - and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him. The uses of prayer are thus only subjective.
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Manhood is what we profess, and what we try to get across.
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People will never stop having kids, and people will never stop spending money on them to make sure they're safe, healthy, and educated.
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I just like stuff that's raw, itself, real and genuine. I think that's the way art should be. That's the kind of stuff that people can connect to more.
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Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a primal source of pleasure to which many people can relate.
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A dream job is to walk right past hair and makeup.
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I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.
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I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.
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Firms are not always willing to cut wages, even if there are people lined up outside the gates to work. So why don't they?
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Due to success I started losing friends.
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.
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If I don't get at least 1 email in any given hour, I begin to think my friends are conspiring against me.
